Hi Brian,
Your "messy workaround" was far more straight forward than my messier
work around, which was to export to PDF then use OCR software to get the
text.
I don't know why it didn't occur to me to select the text via the PDF
reader..
Thank you.
Keith
On 12/10/12 16:02, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:37 12/10/2012 +1100, Keith Bates wrote:
I don't use Impress, powerpoint etc much at all so if this is a
stupid question, I apologise.
Not stupid at all ...
Someone has sent me a long presentation in ppt format which consists
mainly of text. It is somewhat annoying to try to read and absorb the
intent of the text. Is there a simple way to extract the text from
the entire slide show and save it as a text document- I don't care
what format it is as long as it is on one page instead of 45?
Here's a rather messy workaround:
o Open the presentation in Impress.
o Go to File | Export as PDF... to create a PDF copy.
o Open the PDF copy in your favourite PDF reader and save as text from
there.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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Keith Bates
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